2 x Bram Stoker nom author She/Her/MexicanAmerican Rep
@ladderbirdlit
- Aliens: Vasquez -Goddess of Filth-The Queen of The Cicadas- Mestiza Blood-REBEL MOON 1&2
Many historical women of color are used then forgotten or narratives may not be truthful.
This is about La Malinche. This is to honor her story which is also my story. Yes, it’s very 🌶️ and with vampires but it’s so much more than that.
Out now.
It’s my absolute honor to write the Chicana behind the red bandana based on the existing canon AND taking her legacy to new places.
Are you ready for Vásquez?
“Aliens: Vasquez" to reveal backstory of beloved "Alien" franchise character
I guess it’s official… I’m writing the Rebel Moon novel! Make sure you watch on
@netflix
from
@ZackSnyder
AND preorder from
@TitanBooks
when available 🙌🏽Watch this space for links
It’s been a blast working on this EPIC sci-fi adventure and you should absolutely get in on this
ALIENS:VASQUEZ from
@TitanBooks
IS OUT NOW! SHE IS READY TO ROCK YOUR WORLD!!
I am so grateful to create stories and characters in spaces I didn’t see myself widely represented. Not going anywhere. So many tales to share. And thank you so very much
It was an absolute honor and joy to create a book to do the fantastic
#RebelMoon
universe justice.
@ZackSnyder
created an incredible story. He’s a real one. Grab book 1 for extras AND preorder book 2 to get even more! Thank you for all the support!
Not bad for a food stamp and WIC kid
This Chicana from TX is officially a 2 x Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in a novel and long fiction
Dream big even if those dreams began on a mattress on the floor
And if either go all the way then 1st Mexican American
Say what you want about the film or the potential other spin off films but how many other big action/sci-fi/genre are putting POC up front? And women?! I wrote the novelisations. This was an awesome experience. Only love and respect from me.
#RebelMoonPart2TheScargiver
COVER REVEAL!
Filled with so much joy to finally show you The Haunting of Alejandra from
@DelReyBooks
The curse of generational trauma and sorrow has a name….
This is my most personal book to date. Hope y’all feel this one.
Hardcover preorder 👇🏽
Mestiza Blood is out today!
Writing and publishing is a privilege and I’m so blessed with the support you all have shown me. Thank you 🙏🏽🙌🏽
May my abundance be the abundance for others.
Follow Dreams, Brown girls.
#ChicanaStrong
All my sci-fi heads! The world building and characters are super cool and Kora is anything but what you expect.
Preorder now to enjoy over the winter holidays!
Can’t believe I see my name there…🙌🏽
This is 44
Grateful to do what I love
Grateful to share my stories with you
Grateful for my health & children
Grateful for every opportunity that has come my way
There is so much more I want to achieve and I have faith I can accomplish it
It’s never too late
UPDATE!
The “official” US date is now Nov 8 (distribution gods have spoken) Hope you will still help me make some noise!
UK date STILL OCT 25
MERRIMACK BOOK FESTIVAL WILL HAVE COPIES ON OCT. 15. If you’re that thirsty then stop on by
WATCH THIS SPACE FOR LDN BOOK LAUNCH info
ALEJANDRA from
@DelReyBooks
OUT TODAY! Thank you for your support. This book at its soul is about the reclamation of personal and ancestral power, strength and hope
It’s my most personal book I’ve ever written. It’s yours now
With gratitude & joy I give you my book.
Chicana. Great granddaughter of farmworkers. Endorsements from
@ChristophGolden
and
@SGJ72
. Starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal.
But mostly thank you to the readers💜
I write horror and erotic horror and sci-fi because I just don’t give AF. Take up all the space, mija cuz no one is gonna give it to you and I don’t want to be confined to safe spaces. My curves too peligrosa…
While Zack Snyder is "super proud" of the PG-13 version of
#RebelMoon
, he is also looking forward to releasing the longer R-rated director's cuts of his two-part sci-fi epic.
“What we’ve done with the other version is fun and subversive because an R-rated sci-fi movie at this
I never thought any of this was possible. I paid a personal price to pursue my passion but there was no way I could do it with one foot in one foot out.
I love it too much.
Big thanks to the readers, booksellers, librarians, everyone who has supported me 🙌🏽
It’s disheartening when a wyt writer creates Latinx personas, wins awards for representation, best book this &that. I’m over here hoping 2 god I sell enough so my next book gets picked up. Others review bombed. Others trying to carve space.
Colonisation is alive and well.
Goddess of Filth won best novella!
Mega thanks to all the readers and
@LOHFiction
🙌🏽
Writing nourishes that little girl who watched horror films when she should have been in bed and wrote stories without knowing it was possible.
And so fucking proud to represent
Kudos to Zack Snyder & Netflix for finding an author who can write with a level of grandeur and scale equal to Snyder’s visuals.
@vlatinalondon
writes like Zack films.
#RebelMoon
#BooksWorthReading
UK RELEASE TODAY
ALIENS:VASQUEZ from
@TitanBooks
IS OUT! Nov 8 for US
Filled with joy and gratitude. Thank you to everyone who made this happen Readers! Luv you!
@ForbiddenPlanet
London on Nov 3rd for signing.
@MCMComicCon
this Sunday!
I remember watching 300 in the cinema and now getting an awesome shout out from Zack Snyder 😭🙌🏽 for
#RebelMoon
And I am crazy ! I love to lean into all sorts of worlds as my true self and voice. So blessed with this work.
I had a blast creating Noble’s backstory AND the Hawkshaws…. You’ll have to purchase the book because it won’t be in the films!!! 😃⚡️
AND more scenes only in the Rated R version.
#RebelMoonTheScargiver
#RebelMoon
The fight against the Motherworld doesn’t stop. Here’s the official cover for Rebel Moon Part Two - The Scargiver: The Official Novelization!
Pre-order your copy here:
So
#eventhorizon
is trending.
I know a lot of writers would give a kidney to write in this playground. What we need is the Event Horizon Anthology. How many depraved places in space can we visit 🤔
It’s with gratitude I can announce I will be publishing two books with
@DelReyBooks
🙏🏽 Watch out for The Generational Curse of La Llorona
I look forward to continuing connecting with you through storytelling. Thank you all for your support !
#ChicanaStrong
That’s why this book is important. No beef with the film or anyone involved. I loved it but times have changed.
Im reclaiming the canon and character. My foot is firmly in the door before busting it wide open along with other amazing writers of color on the scene today.
Behind every success there is a hell of a lot of rejection.Waiting.
Did you know Goddess of Filth was a rejected short story I cried about for days?
Did you know The Queen of The Cicadas was rejected everywhere. I even had someone humiliate me as I tried to pitch it.
Be Kind.
One of the highlights of
#StokerCon
for me were the Latinas who approached me and became emotional as they told me what my writing means to them. That feels good 🙏🏽
You know what weighs on me as a brown woman? I have 3 books coming out 2021/2022. I worry I won’t get blurbs or good reviews because people can’t fully “connect.” But I want to show my heritage and experiences through horror. It’s a heavy thing to carry around.
Wild & free at 43!
I’ll be spending it on a plane then an airport hotel with my laptop
(I’m sure the whole scene will make it into a book )
But I’m healthy, doing what I love, single, joyful, becoming the woman I always wanted to be, filled with hope for so much more to share
Tears of gratitude. Tears for the ones in previous generations who could only dream of telling stories yet the world would not allow them to
Copal.Palo Santo. Tequila. Fire. May this book find the ones who need it & guided by the ancestors
@DelReyBooks
BUT IF YOU CANT WAIT YOU CAN BUY THE BOOK (R RATED VERSION💥🌶️) NOW !
BOOK 2 DROPS IN APRIL 🙌🏽
#RebelMoon
TENTACLES
BACKSTORY
LOVE TRIANGLES
the works…..
I have the green light ( although I’m humming TLC’s red light special 😬 might be a little bit in here..)
to send out PDF ARCs!!
I have a few in mind but reviewers or people interested in blurbing can get in touch 🙏🏽🚦
Happy tears because this is how we break generational cycles. I’m further than generations of women in my family and it’s 2021.
Don’t ever say it’s not for you. It can be.
Countdown to hosting the book launch for
@manylittlewords
with
@angryrobotbooks
! Tonight! Come cheer her on.
FULL IMMERSION!
I’m supposed to be a spooky skeleton but more like Xeno chestburster…
In the spirit of gratitude for the release of Aliens:Vasquez in 8 wks ,THE FIRST for the franchise, I am SPONSORING a 1 YR
@HorrorWriters
membership for a WOMAN OF COLOR and
@TitanBooks
is MATCHING me
Spread the word so we can do more than say we care about inclusion 🧵👇🏽
2nd blessing of the day! We at the premiere and after party 🙌🏽🫶🏽 2nd red carpet 😭
Never in my south Texas Chicana dreams….grab
#RebelMoonTheScargiver
for lots of cool stuff not in the film ! April 23rd…
Book 1 out now!
#rebelmoon
from
@TitanBooks
Thrilled to announce on
#InternationalWomensDay2022
my Bram Stoker Award nominated book Goddess of Filth has been acquired to be made into an audiobook!
Follow Dreams, Brown Girls
Dancing In the Dark ( Bruce Springsteen) is on full blast. Yes it is!!!!!
Sometimes that’s life. We are all in the dark until we find that spark to set our life and hearts on fire. It exists
Love words. Love world building and storytelling. Let’s go❤️🔥
Here she comes…
Yesterday was such a dream
@ForbiddenPlanet
. Filled with gratitude and lots of “ fuck yes” energy.
Readers! Thank you so very much for your support 🙌🏽
I am beyond grateful and blessed Maria Muñoz has found a home with
@TitanBooks
MARIA THE WANTED AND SEQUEL!
She is the bad vampire in a Selena Quintanilla t-shirt, dusty boots, and Stetson kicking a** on the border
And it’s pretty steamy
Big up
@CathTrech
@ladderbirdlit
The ancestors are watching ☝🏽Generational bonds breaking. Humbled. Honored. Proud for Goddess of Filth and The Queen of The Cicadas to have made the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards
Chicana Strong
Follow Dreams, Brown Girls
@creaturelit
@busybethm
@flametreepress
I’m loving all your
#RebelMoon
posts with your books! Thank you! You can also find me on Insta (same handle as here) and TikT (vcastrobooks) !! I always do my best to repost 🫶🏽
It’s the readers and reviewers that keep these books going and reaching new audiences 🕯️
THE HAUNTING OF ALEJANDRA DROPS in 16wks!
I wrote this book sober in lockdown, hanging on emotionally by a thread during a divorce & got my awesome agent. It was a lesson and blessing when I hit bottom
Preorders are super important so please consider 🙏🏽